History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c91.71

v7.c91.71

¹⁴⁹⁴ For the barbarities and abominations in every European country of the Inquisition, particularly in Spain, one may read W H. Rule's 'History of the Inquisition' (1868), particulary pp 298-314 on 'Inquisition in Goa' and Rafael Sabatini's work on 'Torquemeda and the Spanish Inquisition' (8th ed in 1937), 'the Spanish Inquisition' by Prof. A. S. Turberville (Home University Library, 1932), who is constrained to say on p. 235 that at the best the Holy Office in Spain has a terrible record of destruction; Cambridge Medieval History vol VI, chap. XX on 'Heresies and the Inquisition in the Middle Ages' (1929) pp. 699-726. Cambridge Medieval History vol VI. pp. 694-695 where it is shown that 'Indulgences' (granting forgiveness of sins and a certificate of entry in Paradise) were freely put on sale by the highest ministers of the Christian Church in the hands of licensed traders without the necessity of any confession and penitence and that they became a formidable bar to the proper working of the penitential system of the Church.